Job Description
The Company’s Global Sustainable Finance Group (“GSF”) aims to drive the growth of sustainable investing through ongoing development of products and solutions, economic analysis, thought leadership and capacity building initiatives.
The team is seeking an EMEA Climate Specialist to help implement our integrated, crosscutting approach to climate change across company’s EMEA businesses. This person will work closely with senior leaders of the Global Sustainable Finance team in London and New York to help advance company's climate change strategy by providing needed support across strategy development, research and analysis, project management, document/presentation development and report writing.
Responsibilities:
This role is designed to provide broad-based support in EMEA for strategic initiatives led by the Global Sustainable Finance's Climate Team. Key tasks include but are not limited to:
- Providing high-quality technical qualitative and quantitative research and analysis that strategically informs and supports the development and/or execution of various climate projects related to the implementation of our net-zero financed emissions targets.
- Topics may include, but are not limited to, peer benchmarking on climate policies and best practices, regulatory and policy issues and impacts, investor and stakeholder perspectives on net-zero financed emissions, and other research and analysis on climate issues as needed.
- Supporting and actively contributing to the development and execution of multi-year climate strategy for the firm, in partnership with business units and other functions, including the development of relevant frameworks, methodologies, and policies
- Synthesizing various internal and external insights, frameworks, strategies and other information into executive-ready slides and other deliverables.
- Supporting engagement with external climate and net-zero related initiatives such as the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF), Task for on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net-Zero (GFANZ), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and more.
- Helping to execute the Firm's climate change strategy through integration into regional and local risk processes, business opportunities, operations, reporting and stakeholder engagement.
- Assisting with the firm's external reporting around climate change and sustainability by staying abreast of evolving industry best practices, disclosure regulations and policy, and peer benchmarking, and contributing to the writing of our reports and supporting research and analysis.
- Assisting in responding to external requests for firm information on climate and sustainability across various stakeholders, as needed.
- Assisting the engagement with external stakeholders, such as NGOs, on the topic of climate change, including synthesizing insights from external stakeholders and their publications into takeaways for key firm functions
- Supporting GSFs Products and Solutions team, as appropriate, with the development of climate-related solutions for the firm's clients
- Supporting Institute for Sustainable Investing to execute an ongoing series of climate-related thought leadership pieces that support the market for sustainable finance by providing needed research and potential drafting of reports.